THESE pictures reveal how a controversial 600-home development in Sinfin will look when it is completed.

The homes will replace industrial units at Sinfin Central Business Park, off Sinfin Lane.

The real-estate firm behind the development, F&C REIT, says work is expected to start on the site in 18 months but it was unable to say when it would be completed.

Now it has provided new images of the estate, which will be built by developer Brightsea Sarl.

The announcement comes as Councillor Joe Naitta, who represents nearby Bla-greaves ward, reiterated his concerns over the lack of school being built as part of the plans. Council officers are still in discussions with the developer over whether it could provide funds for a new school elsewhere. Mr Naitta said schools in Sinfin and Blagreaves ward were already over-subscribed and that a new school in the area was vital.

Mr Naitta said: "I think a change in the rules certainly needs to be thought about whereby developers have to provide a school in developments over a certain size."

The council had received two letters and a 63-name petition against the plan, mainly concerned about how extra traffic would affect nearby roads.

Objectors said streets around the site – Sinfin Lane, Wordsworth Avenue, Goodsmoor Road and Stenson Road – would all be hit by extra traffic, that "air quality" would drop because of exhaust fumes and that there was not enough space allocated for parking.

A transport report in the planning says the site would be accessible on foot and by bike, "so there is a good opportunity to replace trips by private car".

Shops, eateries and buildings that could become a nursery, health centre or pharmacy will be built on the site alongside the houses.

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Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one,And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

Re air quality - There are TWO Air Quality Management Areas in Sinfin already, in which people are breathing substandard air. Under the Environment Act, the City Council is supposed to be 'providing every citizen with the benefit of clean air' yet nirogen dioxide levels are being breached (industry and traffic) as are particulate levels (industry and diesel traffic, mainly)
The City Council Environmental Health Officer stated during the first planning meeting for the RRS/Shanks Sinfin incinerator that both incinerators and associated traffic would lead to a further breach of air quality standards. Nitrogen dioxide and particulates add to climate change and greenhouse effects too. Then theres the dioxin...........
So where is the City Council's updated Air Quality Action Plan for the area??
Derby and South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth

I love this statement:
A transport report in the planning says the site would be accessible on foot and by bike, "so there is a good opportunity to replace trips by private car".
There maybe good opportunities, but how many times do they really think trips by private car will be replaced by walking or cycling? REALLY? As a mitigation for the complaints about increased traffic, it is pretty poor.

Rather houses be built here than on greenbelt land. They definately need to look at the infra structure and roads as goodsmoor bridge is still one lane, the junction at blagreaves is a bottle neck and thats before you add in x amount of extra cars.